PM's popularity declines

An ABAC poll has found a dramatic drop in the popularity of Thaksin. Democrat leader Abhisit, on the other hand, now enjoys the favour of 38.8% of the respondents, still below but within striking distance of Thaksin's 45.9% support.

More than 40 per cent of the respondents said they “had no confidence” that the government would be able to solve the economic problems, compared to almost 14 per cent who believed it could. In terms of the corruption problems, over 47 per cent said they did not believe in the government’s ability to deal with corruption, compared to less than 15 per cent who did.

On the other hand, of those surveyed 18.5 per cent called for a change of government while 75.1 per cent of the respondents said they were happy for the government to remain in power.

This only emphasizes the extremely low expectations Thais have of their government.